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TOTAL RESULTS: 106
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- Date
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21 Mar 2012
- Chamber
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Senate
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Not Proceeding
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Sponsor
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BUSHBY, Sen David
- Summary
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The bill: specifies actions the minister must take when a dental practitioner who has provided a dental service and claimed a Medicare benefit payment is required to repay the benefit because certain administrative processes have not been undertaken; and requires the minister to table a report in Parliament detailing the actions taken. Also amends the Health Insurance (Dental Services) Determination 2007 to allow for circumstances where a Medicare benefit can be paid where a written quotation was not provided prior to dental treatment.
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- Date
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24 Nov 2011
- Chamber
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Senate
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Act
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Portfolio
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Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
- Summary
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Amends the
Higher Education Support Act 2003
to: provide that the minister retains the power to decide an application for approval as a higher education provider although the required timeframe may have expired; require VET providers to notify the minister in writing of events which may affect their ability to comply with quality and accountability requirements; provide for the authorisation of certain uses and disclosures of information; allow the secretary to revoke or vary any determination made to pay an advance to a VET provider in certain circumstances; clarify that a VET provider must provide statistical and other information although an approved form of provision has not been specified; and make administrative arrangements relating to the assessment of an individual’s higher education loan program debt.
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10 Feb 2011
- Chamber
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Senate
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Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
- Summary
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Amends the
Higher Education Support Act 2003
to make administrative changes to the FEE-HELP and VET FEE-HELP programs by: requiring the minister to be satisfied that a body corporate is ‘fit and proper’; providing flexibility in the ‘principal purpose’ requirements; enabling the minister to give qualified approvals; providing for procedural fairness before a provider’s approval is suspended; and including new decisions which are subject to review.
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- Date
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28 Oct 2009
- Chamber
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Senate
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Not Proceeding
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Sponsor
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CORMANN, Sen Mathias
FIELDING, Sen Steve
XENOPHON, Sen Nick
- Summary
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Amends the
Health Insurance Act 1973
to provide that if an item in the general medical services table is disallowed under the Legislative Instruments Act 2003
, the corresponding item in the previous regulations is taken to apply from the time of disallowance.
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- Date
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27 Mar 2003
- Chamber
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Senate
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Act
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Portfolio
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Health and Ageing
- Summary
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Amends the:
National Health Act 1953
to: increase the maximum number of members of Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee; provide for payment and/or waiver of recovery of 90 per cent of the value of pharmaceutical benefits supplied from an unapproved relocated pharmacy where the pharmacist has subsequently obtained approval; allow an agent to make and sign an application for a pharmaceutical benefits scheme (PBS) safety net concession or entitlement card; provide that certain ministerial determinations apply to the supply of pharmaceutical benefits by hospitals in the same way as they do to supply by pharmacies; clarify the decision-maker’s discretion to cancel approvals to supply pharmaceutical benefits; and allow a medical services provider to send claims directly to the Health Insurance Commission; Health Insurance Act 1973
, Health Insurance Commission Act 1973
, National Health Act 1953
and Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986
to provide that special supply arrangements can be used for the funding particular medicines not available through the PBS; Health Insurance Act 1973
to restore specialist recognition status for certain specialists; and ensure that overseas trained doctors do not receive Medicare benefits for assisting at operations unless they have an exemption or have committed themselves to providing services in districts of workforce shortage; and Aged Care Act 1997
and Health Insurance Act 1973
to make technical amendments and corrections.
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- Date
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27 Mar 2003
- Chamber
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Senate
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Act
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Portfolio
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Health and Ageing
- Summary
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Amends the:
Health and Other Services (Compensation) Act 1995
to clarify the circumstances under which medicare and residential care benefits paid to compensation claimants can be recovered; and Health Insurance Act 1973
to expand the Australian Childhood Immunisation Register to include previous foreign immunisation of children where these are notified to the Health Insurance Commission by recognised immunisation providers or prescribed bodies; and update certain definitions. Also makes consequential amendments to the Health and Other Services (Compensation) Care Charges Act 1995
and contains application provisions.
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- Date
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06 Mar 2003
- Chamber
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Senate
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Act
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Portfolio
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Health and Ageing
- Summary
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Amends the:
National Health Act 1953
and Private Health Insurance Incentives Act 1998
in relation to the obligations of registered organisations; and to remove the rule change assessment process which requires registered health benefits organisations to submit all rule changes for government approval and replace it with a system of monitoring and compliance; and National Health Act 1953
to: increase the powers of the Private Health Insurance Ombudsman (PHIO) to investigate complaints and resolve disputes; provide for an annual “state of the health funds” report by the PHIO; and make amendments to the lifetime health cover provisions.
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- Date
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21 Mar 2002
- Chamber
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Senate
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Act
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Portfolio
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Health and Ageing portfolio
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- Date
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21 Mar 2002
- Chamber
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Senate
- Status
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Act
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Portfolio
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Health and Ageing
- Summary
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Amends the
National Health Act 1953
in relation to: gap cover schemes; the obligations of health funds to provide information to the public and the Health Insurance Commission; rationalising the structure of the Act; and Health Insurance Act 1973
to transfer responsibility for registration of billing agents from the Private Health Insurance Administration Council to the Health Insurance Commission. Also contains transitional provisions.
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- Date
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31 May 2001
- Chamber
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Senate
- Status
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Not Proceeding
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Portfolio
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Health and Aged Care Portfolio
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